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Episode: An Alien Game: Japan's Path to War (1)
Description: Podcast: Subject to Change (LS 39 · TOP 2% what is this?)Episode: An Alien Game: Japan's Path to War (1)Pub date: 2025-06-03Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationThe transformation of Japan from hermit kingdom to imperial power happened with breathtaking speed. When American Commodore Perry's "black ships" steamed into Tokyo Bay in the 1850s, they shattered Japan's 250-year isolation with technology that seemed to come "from 200 years in the future." This technological gap created a constitutional crisis that would ultimately topple the Tokugawa Shogunate and ush...